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Welcome to the project "Rules by Examples": all the rules of Magic: the Gathering with lots of illustrated examples.

This manual has been written for Level 1 candidates who want to learn Magic rules technically and professionally to pass Level 1 test, and for those who want to use their rules knowledge in real games and tournaments to solve complex play situations without the need of knowing all corner cases and rules.

1 Summary
2 Credits
3 Notes on Media Wiki
4 Getting started

Summary

Introduction
Game basics: you need to start from here!
1. Terminology: the foundations of the game --- UPDATED TO SoM
2. Cards: parts of a card --- UPDATED TO Innistrad
3. Card types: all permanents and spells explained --- UPDATED TO MBS
Game structure: cast spells and attack with creatures
1. Game zones: where you put the cards --- UPDATED TO M11
2. Phases and steps: what you do in your turn --- UPDATED TO SoM
3. On the stack: casting and resolving spells or abilities --- UPDATED TO SoM
More than spells: abilities and effects
1. Abilities: how cards work --- UPDATED to MBS
2. Effects: what abilities do --- UPDATED TO SoM
3. Layers: interaction of continuous effects --- UPDATED TO SoM
4. Keywords: a short way to remember common actions and common abilities --- UPDATED to Innistrad
Behind the scenes: the game in slow motion
1. Timing and priority: how the game becomes interactive --- UPDATED TO SoM
2. Handling triggered abilities: stuff that just happens --- UPDATED TO SoM
3. State-based actions: the plumbings of the game --- UPDATED TO SoM
Tournament basics: events, results and pairings

Credits

The Judge Program is amazing because so many people are willing to help others by dedicating their time and their energies. Many people contributed and are contributing to updating and adding content to this document. They are listed below in alphabetical order.

Current wiki contributors

Bernd Buldt (editor)
Dominick Riesland
Federico Calò
Francesco Scialpi (chief editor)
Giovanni D'Amelio
Giuliano Freiles
Javier Alvarez
Jeremie Granat
Josh Stansfield
Kim Warren (editor)
Koen Valkeneers
Luca Romano
Matteo Callegari (project leader)
Nicola DiPasquale
Paweł Kazimierczuk
Salvatore La Terra (content manager)
Sandro Manfredini
Thomas Marchiori (technical manager)
William Tiddi

Past wiki contributors (2010)

Marco Soranno
Sandro Campigotto

Original Document editors and translators (2009)

Daniele Monterisi
Fabio Ivona
Federico Calò
Gianluca Bonacchi
Marco Risso
Matteo Callegari
Sandro Manfredini
Stefano Candini

Original Document (2008)

The original document "Rules by Examples" (in Italian) was created and written by Diego Fasciolo: his idea inspired this project and many contents still survive in this wiki. Thanks Diego!